Council certifies election results

Tuesday

Apr 29, 2008 at 5:38 PMApr 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM

The Gadsden City Council today certified the vote in last Tuesday’s referendum on the question of changing to an elected school board. The margin of victory changed by one vote.The council approved the vote as being 1,823 to 1,603 for the council to keep appointing the board members.City Clerk Iva Nelson told the council there had been two provisional or challenged ballots — both of which were absentee.She said the ballots were investigated by the Board of Registrars and one was allowed to be counted and the other wasn’t allowed.That ballot was against an elected board, which changed the no votes from 1,822 to 1,823.

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